Video Archives

I learned about some basic date and time functions a few days ago, but I didn’t finish the video until today because I wasn’t feeling well. So, without further ado, here’s the two-minute video:

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Links for PHP Day 13: Date and Time Functions
All from the PHP manual:

PHP: Date and Time Functions - Reference page […]

Two-minute video. Today I drew another one of my stuffed animals, and this time I noticed a definite improvement in my shading skills! The proportions were way off, though.

This eight-minute video shows how you can use regular expressions to validate input from an HTML form. It’s only an introduction to regular expressions, so see the links for more in-depth explanations.

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Links for PHP Day 12: Basics of Regular Expressions
More on regular expression syntax:

Regular Expressions Tutorial - A detailed tutorial from a site […]

Two-minute video on how I drew a penguin. The penguin was cute, but the drawing was pretty bad. That’s OK, though; I just wanted to get some practice using shapes and shading techniques.

This six-minute video covers a couple security issues with HTML forms and how to make forms safer with a few simple PHP functions. There’s also a quick look at the pesky “magic quotes” option.

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Links for PHP Day 11: Functions for Form Input Security
Magic quotes:

PHP: Magic Quotes - An overview from the PHP manual.
PHP: […]

This six-minute video explores the security issues and differences between the superglobals $_GET, $_POST, and $_REQUEST, as well as the problematic register_globals option.

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Links for PHP Day 10: Security Issues with Superglobals and register_globals
Security issues and differences between superglobals $_GET, $_POST, and $_REQUEST:

PHP Get - Overview of the $_GET superglobal array.
PHP Post - Overview […]

Last night I made my first functional HTML form using PHP! It’s very basic, but it works! This five-minute video shows what I learned — not much, but enough to get started.

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Links for PHP Day 9: Using PHP with HTML Forms
PHP superglobals:

PHP: Predefined Variables - PHP Superglobals - A list of the […]

This is just a three-minute introduction/overview of including PHP files in other PHP files.

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Links for PHP Day 8: Including Files
Here are reference pages from the PHP manual on the different ways to include files:

PHP: Include
PHP: Require
PHP: Require_once
PHP: Include_once

I’d love to see a well-written article explaining the stuff on the page for include. Hardly […]

This video (five and a half minutes long) covers the basics of loops, as well as a couple more operators.

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Links for PHP Day 7: Loops
Operators:

PHP: Incrementing/Decrementing Operators - A reference page with examples from the PHP manual.
PHP: Assignment Operators - Reference page from the PHP manual explaining the use of = and the […]

This five-minute video covers the basics of boolean values, comparison operators, logical operators, and conditional statements (using if, else, elseif, and switch).

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Links for PHP Day 6: Booleans, More Operators, and Conditional Statements
Booleans:

PHP: Booleans
Note: it’s been brought to my attention (thanks to a certain database-programming boyfriend) that I really skipped over explaining boolean values. […]